INDEX 
Thrush, the Alice’s, 387-388; the 
hermit, 389. 
Tides, 43-44, 68, 301. 
Timber land, grants of, 172-173. 
Torngat Range, 100-101, 109, 111. 
Trappers, the, 226. 
Trawl fishing for cod, 303-304. 
Trees, along Hamilton River, 147, 
157. See Forests. 
Trout, lake, 204-205. 
Trout fishing, 46, 78; at Hamilton 
Inlet, 145-146; on upper Hamil- 
ton River, 158. 
Truck Act of 1831, 247 n. 
Truck system of trade, effort to 
break up, 240, 247. 
Tuberculosis, prevalence of, 178, 179, 
256-257. 
Tundra, defined, 410. 
Turner, Lucius M., cited, 197, 198. 
Typhoid fever, brought by Eskimos 
from Chicago Exposition, 179; 
anecdote concerning a patient 
with, 231. 
Tyrrell, J. B., 259. 
Uinastikai, Indian food, 211-212. 
Ukasiksalik (Davis Inlet), 11, 45, 181. 
Urelia McKinnon, mission boat, 240. 
Vessels, of Northmen and of Colum- 
bus, 3; hospital, 236 ff.; in 
fisheries, 298-299, 318. 
Vikings, Labrador voyages of, 1-4. 
Vinland, 3, 4. 
Volcanic formations, 99 ff., 103. 
Voyages of the Cabots and Corte- 
Reals, Biggar’s, 7. 
Wallace, Dillon, 162-163. 
Walrus, killing off of, 362-363; 
slight value of, to the white man, 
363-364; size and habits, 364; 
value to Eskimo, 364-365. 
497 
Warblers, Tennessee and Wilson’s, 
387; common and black-poll, 
388-389; Canadian and other 
varieties, 389. 
Waswanipi Lake, derivation of name, 
206. 
Water-birds, 381-385. 
West St. Modiste, codperative store 
at, 241. 
Whale factories, 358. 
Whale hunting, 358-360. 
Whale Island, 62. 
Whale River, the smaller, 199. 
Whales, physiology of, 352-354; 
six species of, 354: sulphur- 
bottom, 354-355; finback, 355; 
humpback, 355-356; white, 356; 
thresher, or killer, 356; the 
grampus and porpoise, 357; 
sperm, or cachalot, 357-358; the 
narwhale, 358; food of, 358; 
hunting and cutting up of, 358— 
361; figures of the industry, 361. 
Whitbourne, quoted, $4. 
Whitefish, in upper Hamilton River, 
158; (labradoricus), taking the, 
205. 
White Handkerchief, Cape, 44-45. 
Whiteway, Sir William, 290. 
Windigo, evil spirit, 223. 
Winokapau Lake, 149-150. 
Wolstenholme, Cape, 55. 
Wolves, with caribou herds, 215; 
resemblance of Labrador dogs 
to, 272-274; respect of, for man, 
274. 
Women, life of Indian, 215-216. 
Wood, Francis H., 260 ff. 
Yachting, Labrador as a field for, 
41-44. 
Zeno, Antonio, narrative of, 4-5. 
Zoar, Moravian Mission station, 35. 
